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U.S. Military’s Elite Hacker Crew

Wired News has reported on the U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew.  Yup, it is just like the movies.  I wonder if these hackers are sitting in a dark room somewhere cracking jokes about arcane hacker stuff eating some mass produced candy to keep their energy levels up?

The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks -- from electric grids to telephone nets.

The group's existence was revealed during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last month. Military leaders from U.S. Strategic Command, or Stratcom, disclosed the existence of a unit called the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare, or JFCCNW.

In simple terms and sans any military jargon, the unit could best be described as the world's most formidable hacker posse. Ever.

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